Originally Posted by sunnyside

I don't think he claims a half million died. Serbia/Yugoslavia didn't get that much time to operate freely. It's true our planes didn't blow up that many tanks, but we did pin a lot of the Serbian forces down.

As for the article posted.

1. If Milsovic suspected a staging he should have followed his little statement up with "and I'll let your people into the area to examine the bodies" If they were shot and stabbed after death it would have been apparent once people actually got to the bodies. They can tell that sort of thing.

But that's not what he did. It sounds like he repeatedly barred people from getting to the areas to investigate claims of genocide.

If it was staged than Milsovic failed your country horribly by making the world believe it was true by denying access instead of letting them prove it wasn't. You can't blame the rest of us for believing what we did in the situation.

2. The article seems to claim NATO 'lied" about the number of tanks blow up and then admits that they had been hitting decoys. They weren't lying, they were just wrong.

3. Kosovo had a lot of autonomy BEFORE all this business started. And having the Russians come in to watch over the area? Oh that sounds just great for the Albanians. No the terms Milsovic was willing to agree to before the bombing were very different. As evidence I'll point present the who "independent Kosovo" thing. I'd consider that not "essentially the same" wouldn't you?